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Blow Out - 1981
Posted on 2/17/26 at 11:37 pm
Posted on 2/17/26 at 11:37 pm
Anyone a fan of Blow Out? John Travolta is great in this. Nancy Allen is ok, but I like her much better in Dressed to Kill. John Lithgow is the perfect villian. I like how De Palma always opens with something that grabs your attention. The end of the film comes full circle, which is a nice touch. The Hitchcock influence is obvious.
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Posted on 2/18/26 at 5:10 am to NankerPhelge
I started watching this a few months ago after I saw Tarentino mention it as one of his all time favorite movies. I ended up having to cut it short about half way through because something came up and I never finished it. It definitely started out very interesting but kinda started to feel predictable the more it went on
Posted on 2/18/26 at 7:02 am to NankerPhelge
It's a good flick, and proves Travolta was more than a pretty face and a dancer. Sadly it didn't help his career.
Posted on 2/18/26 at 7:52 am to NankerPhelge
Never heard of it. Looks interesting. Travolta looks good, throwing some vibes of Jake Gyllenhall in Nightcrawler.
Posted on 2/18/26 at 7:53 am to Shiftyplus1
Travolta was damn good. How many actors could play his parts in Saturday Night Fever, Grease or Urban Cowboy as well? Pulp Fiction, Primary Colors, Get Shorty and Blow Out he nailed as well.
Posted on 2/18/26 at 7:54 am to NankerPhelge
Loved this movie! All the sound recording scenes when Travolta pieces together the ‘blow out’ frame by frame was really cool. Kinda at the beginning of an awesome DePalma run:
Carrie ‘76
Dressed To Kill ‘80
Blow Out ‘81
Scarface ‘83
Body Double ‘84
Wise Guys ‘86
The Untouchables’87
Casualties Of War ‘89
Bonfires Of The Vanities ‘90
Carrie ‘76
Dressed To Kill ‘80
Blow Out ‘81
Scarface ‘83
Body Double ‘84
Wise Guys ‘86
The Untouchables’87
Casualties Of War ‘89
Bonfires Of The Vanities ‘90
Posted on 2/18/26 at 7:56 am to NankerPhelge
Great flick.
Posted on 2/18/26 at 8:18 am to NankerPhelge
That was an entertaining watch. Very much of the 80’s. And DePalma includes his usual homage to Hitchcock…
Posted on 2/18/26 at 8:22 am to tigermeat
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Bonfires Of The Vanities ‘90
Great book, terrible movie.
Posted on 2/18/26 at 8:25 am to tigermeat
quote:
Carrie ‘76
Dressed To Kill ‘80
Blow Out ‘81
Scarface ‘83
Body Double ‘84
Wise Guys ‘86
The Untouchables’87
Casualties Of War ‘89
Bonfires Of The Vanities ‘90
Which one of these things is not like the others? Had to look up Wise Guys and I remember watching it and thinking it was decent but would never have guessed De Palma directed if asked today. His run didn't stop in '90:
Raising Cain '91
Carlito's Way '93
Mission Impossible '96
Snake Eyes '98
Raising Cain and Snake Eyes are at least decent and better than that compared to today's dreck. Carlito's Way is brilliant.
Posted on 2/18/26 at 8:26 am to NankerPhelge
Very underrated. My favorite De Palma movie after Body Double. Besides the usual Hitchcock nods, it's also an homage to the 60's Antonioni film Blow Up, in which a photographer in unsure whether he photographed a murder in Swinging 60's London.
Posted on 2/18/26 at 9:00 am to flvelo12
Agreed. I loved Bonfire, the book. The movie shat the bed…
Posted on 2/18/26 at 10:29 am to NankerPhelge
the part of this movie that always stuck out in my mind is travolta(?) i think was doing a frame by frame analysis of the tire footage and zeroed in on the plume from the bullet hitting it.
thats about all i remember about it
thats about all i remember about it
Posted on 2/18/26 at 11:27 am to rebelrouser
Was Casualties of War the one with Sean Penn and Michael J. Fox?
Posted on 2/18/26 at 11:34 am to hogcard1964
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Was Casualties of War the one with Sean Penn and Michael J. Fox?
Yes. Got overshadowed by Platoon but very good in its own right.
Posted on 2/18/26 at 11:45 am to NankerPhelge
I really enjoyed this. The one thing that bothered me was
**SPOILER**
his using Nancy Allen's scream in the movie. Knowing that she was being murdered was just too creepy and sad to me.
**SPOILER**
his using Nancy Allen's scream in the movie. Knowing that she was being murdered was just too creepy and sad to me.
Posted on 2/18/26 at 1:49 pm to Shiftyplus1
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It's a good flick, and proves Travolta was more than a pretty face and a dancer. Sadly it didn't help his career.
Well, it eventually did as Tarantino has cited it as one of the primary reasons he wanted to cast Travolta in Pulp Fiction, but, yeah, it took quite awhile to get there.
It really just goes to show how fickle success in Hollywood can be. Heading into the the '80s Travolta was one of the hottest young actors in the game having just come off of highly successful performances in Saturday Night Fever, Grease and Urban Cowboy. In Blow Out he turns in an excellent performance in a very well made film made by incredible director who had already made several successful pictures. It was all the right recipe for success and should have kept his career momentum going, but for whatever reason audiences just didn't show up and Travolta's status as a leading man went into the tank for the next 13 years.
Posted on 2/18/26 at 4:44 pm to NankerPhelge
I love this movie.
Over the past 2 years i've been going through a bunch of movies I missed from the 80s and 90s. Probably too young to watch some of these back then.
And damn, the movies today really do suck. I just hate the look of new movies too, everything looks too fake, it's not grainy enough, etc.
Over the past 2 years i've been going through a bunch of movies I missed from the 80s and 90s. Probably too young to watch some of these back then.
And damn, the movies today really do suck. I just hate the look of new movies too, everything looks too fake, it's not grainy enough, etc.
Posted on 2/19/26 at 1:38 am to NankerPhelge
Yes & as a kid I thought Travolta was the greatest ever. To go from Urban Cowboy (my favorite) to this character amazed me.
Posted on 2/19/26 at 8:20 am to NankerPhelge
Great movie, watched it a few years ago based on someone's recommendation here.
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